What’s a product you seriously underestimated… until it ate the market?
For me: I laughed at Calendly. Now I can’t even book lunch without it. 😅
Drop yours — let’s cry (and learn) together.

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Discord

I used AIM as a kid (I know I’m dating myself), and we had so many other solutions over the years (Skype, BBM, hipchat, WhatsApp, slack, etc)…

But all the “kids” use Discord now

Discord is a good one

Snapchat 😬

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The problem with calendly is how easy it was for Google and others to build the same functionality into their product.

For me, it's YouTube. Vimeo seemed like it would be a competitor at some point but had to completely pivot as far as I can tell

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